KING, Sir Robert (c.1599-1657), of Boyle Abbey, co. Roscommon, Ire. and Cecil House, The Strand, Westminster.

Family and Education

b. c. 1599, 1st s. of Sir John King of Boyle Abbey and Catherine, da. of Robert Drury. educ. Queens’, Camb. 19 Jan. 1614.Al. Cant. m. (1) Frances (d. 13 Mar. 1638), da. of Sir Henry Folliott, Lord Folliott of Ballyshannon [I], 4s. 6da.; (2) c.1641 Sophia (d. 1691), wid. of Sir Edward Cecil, Viscount Wimbledon and da. of Sir William Zouch of Woking, Surrey, 2da.Lodge, Peerage, iv. 152, 155. Kntd. 19 Aug. 1621.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 177. suc. fa. 4 Jan. 1637. d. June 1657.Lodge, Peerage, iv. 152; Henry Cromwell Corresp. 295.

Offices Held

Irish: muster-master-gen. and clerk of the cheque, 8 May 1618 – 23 Jan. 1645, Nov. 1649–?d.CSP Ire. 1615–25, p. 193; 1633–47, p.172; Bodl. Carte 13, f. 528; Abbott, Writings and Speeches, ii. 176. J.p. and cust. rot. co. Roscommon 1624; Leinster 4 Nov. 1651.McGrath, Biographical Dict.; TCD, MS 844, f. 110. Commr. raising money for the army, July 1627;CSP Ire. 1625–32, p. 253. sale of French prize goods, Connaught 1628.CSP Ire. 1647–60, p. 131. MP, Boyle 1634 – 35, 1640;H.F. Kearney, Strafford in Ireland (2nd edn. Cambridge, 1989), 247–8; McGrath, Biographical Dict. commr. to Ulster, 3 May, 23 Sept. 1645.A. and O.; LJ vii. 596b. Trustee, maintenance of Trin. Coll. and free sch. Dublin 8 Mar. 1650.CSP Ire.1603–6, p.xcvii. Commr. revenue, 1 May 1651.NLI, MS 758, f. 113. Jt. commr. of stores, Dublin 4 Sept. 1651.Eg. 1762, f. 202. Asst. to parlty. commrs. 24 Mar. 1652.Eg. 1762, f. 11v-12. Commr. high ct. of justice, Dublin 30 Dec. 1652;TCD, MS 844, f. 136. accts. of arrears by Sept. 1654;Ire. under the Commonwealth, ii. 447, 463. assessment, co. and city of Dublin, co. Sligo 16 Oct. 1654, 12 Jan. 1655;An Assessment for Ire. (Dublin, 1654, 1655). letting crown lands, cos. Dublin, Kildare and Carlow 4 Sept. 1655;Ire. under the Commonwealth, ii. 538–9. allocation of land, Connaught 12 Feb. 1656.Ire. under the Commonwealth, ii. 565–6.

Central: commr. ordinance for raising £50,000 for Ireland, 25 Jan. 1648.CSP Ire. 1647–60, p. 771. Trustee, Irish lands, 5 June 1648.A. and O. Cllr. of state, 1 Nov. 1653.CJ vii. 344a-b.

: of Boyle Abbey, Ire., co. Roscommon and Cecil House, Westminster., The Strand.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

KING, Sir Robert (c.1599-1657), of Boyle Abbey, co. Roscommon, Ire. and Cecil House, The Strand, Westminster.

Will

13 Apr. 1657, pr. 18 June 1657.PROB11/265/400.

Estates

inherited Irish estate of nearly 13,000 acres concentrated in cos. Roscommon and Sligo;Survey and Distribution, i. 80-148; Down Survey website; J. Ohlmeyer, Making Ireland English: the Irish aristocracy in the seventeenth century (New Haven, 2012), 312. purchased lands in co. Dublin, Limerick, Galway, Kildare; English lands acquired on m. to Viscountess Wimbledon included Whitaker manor, Warws., Bruwood manor, Staffs. and Cecil House, Strand, Westminster.PROB11/265/400. By 1670 family held 104,000 acres in Ireland.Ohlmeyer, Making Ireland English, 213.

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